Hi All, I'm looking at using the ListView control in virtual mode - I have managed to populate the list by creating a generic List of type ListViewItem , which I populate from a DataTable, then in the RetrieveVirtualItem eventhandler I set the e.Item property to MyList[e.Index] ( which is passed in the eventargs param ), this all works pretty well. The question I have is, what is the best way to search the ListView for a given string ? When in virtual mode the items collection is not available so you have to manage an event called SearchForVirtualItem which is raised whenever you call FindItemWithText("your text"). What I do at present , is, loop through my generic list and compare its' Text property to the Text property in the eventargs of the eventhandler - this doesn't strike me as very efficient. Any ideas ?